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$A_N$ in inclusive lepton-proton collisions: TMD and twist-3 approaches

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology 2015-06-23 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment

Abstract

We consider the inclusive production of hadrons in lepton-nucleon scattering. For a transversely polarized nucleon this reaction shows a left-right azimuthal asymmetry, which we compute this asymmetry in both TMD and in twist-3 collinear factorization formalisms. All non-perturbative parton correlators of the calculation are fixed through information from other hard processes. Our results for the left-right asymmetry agree in sign with recent data for charged pion production from the HERMES Collaboration and from Jefferson Lab. We discuss similarities and differences of two formalisms.

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@article{arxiv.1410.3867,
  title  = {$A_N$ in inclusive lepton-proton collisions: TMD and twist-3 approaches},
  author = {Alexei Prokudin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1410.3867},
  year   = {2015}
}

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6 pages, 4 figures, to appear in the proceedings of the TRANSVERSITY 2014, Chia, Italy, 9-13 June, 2014